Sentences with phrase «contemporary film culture»

Contemporary film culture agonizes over sussing out and defining the political content of every release, eager to slot it into the «correct» side of the right - left divide.

The episode also features a clip of Dario's deep discussion about film criticism and contemporary film culture with friend of the podcast Simran Hans, which can be found in full over on our Patreon site for subscribers, as well as Neil's chat with film critic and podcaster Leslie Byron Pitt about representation in filmmaking and film criticism alongside as Basic Instinct and erotic thrillers as Leslie is one quarter of the excellent Fatal Attractions podcast.

by Bill Chambers The common charge levelled at Ryan's Daughter when it was released in 1970 was that it seemed anachronistic within contemporary film culture.

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At the same time, the film seeks to bridge «Eastern» thought and culture with contemporary «Western» perceptions.

New to this disc is the four - minute «In Walt's Words: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,» an audio - only interview with Walt Disney discussing the film set to an image track, the seven - minute featurette «Iconography» that explores the film's influences on popular culture, art, and fashion, «@DisneyAnimation: Designing Disney's First Princess» with four contemporary animators discussing the design of Snow White, and an «Alternate Sequence: The Prince Meets Snow White,» plus the breezy promo - style pieces «The Fairest Facts of Them All: 7 Facts You May Now Know About Snow White» with Disney Channel star Sofia Carson and the rap retelling «Snow White in Seventy Seconds.»

However, this is anything but a period piece, as the film retains an early»90s American pop culture feel more than anything else, replete with contemporary references and postmodern sensibilities.

Again writing with star Gerwig, Baumbach has constructed what is easily his most exuberantly brash film yet — chartering a collision course with contemporary beatnik culture at neck break speeds and spilling out a messy monument in its wake.

As Ian Olney explains in his recent book Euro Horror: Classic European Horror Cinema in Contemporary American Culture, Hollywood stole distribution tactics from B - film production studios, such as saturated openings, while also recognizing the viability of cheap sequels to accompany these methods, where films could make so much money in one weekend, as to become profitable, that whether or not audiences actually liked the film ended up being an afterthought.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

SYNOPSIS: In a sub-genre that has swallowed up contemporary culture in a way that nobody saw coming when George A. Romero's groundbreaking films captured the Vietnam or consumerist zeitgeist of their respective eras, David Freyne's contribution to the -LSB-...]

Whether one cares for the films or not, Marvel Studios has created a system with a remarkable hold on contemporary pop culture, and it would be gratifying to be provided some real context as to its working methods.

Blade isn't just some marginal, pre-boom scrap from the 20th - century superhero film heap, though it does seem that popular culture has discarded black - produced superhero flicks in favor of the big - budget, contemporary releases.

Students analyze the development of dramatic forms, production practices, and theatrical traditions across cultures and historical periods and explain influences on contemporary theatre, film, television, and electronic media productions

Opening in June 2017, major Barbican exhibition Into the Unknown: A Journey through Science Fiction is a genre - defining exploration of one of popular culture's most celebrated realms encompassing literature, contemporary art, film, music, comic books and video games to present a new, global perspective on Science Fiction.

His interdisciplinary practice combines painting, sculpture, and performance, and merges disparate fields and influences, from interior and stage design to film and comics, exploring desire, memory, and estrangement in contemporary domestic and commercial culture.

Distinct from the ways that early twentieth - century European avant - garde film advanced narratives of «failed vision» and «enlightenment» within the transformation of modern life, this conversation reconsiders the aesthetics of abstraction and experimentation that are beholden to an ethics of contingency and fragmentation within contemporary culture.

By combining the artwork and exhibition production process with China's encompassing cityscapes the film offers a window into contemporary Chinese culture and society.

He has written on contemporary aesthetics, art, film and television for The Journal of Aesthetics and Culture, Screen, Monu, Frieze, and various collections and catalogues, and has given talks for Documenta and Frieze Art Fair.

The exhibition incorporated a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, and other forms of popular culture and prompts rich discussions about the contested ways that African and African American beauty have been represented in historical and contemporary contexts.

The line - up will consist of film, exhibitions, talks and debates, literature, music, politics, visual arts, fashion and cuisine, including: Light from the Middle East, an exhibition of contemporary photography from the Middle East, an evening of song with Emel Mathlouthi, a discussion of the role of art and culture in Syria with journalist Malu Halasa and an evening with poet Al Saddiq Al - Raddi whose work reflects his identity as an African poet writing in Arabic.

The MCA documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance.

Founded in 1945, the MCA Chicago «documents contemporary visual culture through painting, sculpture, photography, video and film, and performance,» at its central Chicago Loop location.

Eric White's paintings reference 20th century film, music and pop culture backed by consummate draftsmanship and painterly finesse to subvert and recode the dominant narratives of contemporary society.

Building on previous exhibitions, the artist continues to critique storytelling in contemporary culture, and its reliance on film and photography.

In all these visually varied works - paintings, sculptures, film installation - Lavier's attitude is consistent in presenting issues on the forefront of contemporary art: the paradoxical relationships between painting and sculpture; art and nonart; high art and popular culture; and reality and simulation.

Upcoming at Virginia Museum of Fine Arts Posing Beauty in African American Culture April 27 — July 26 This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the InCulture April 27 — July 26 This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Inculture such as music and the Internet.

But the concept also has roots in more contemporary Japanese and American culture and the film's Murakami watched as a teenager.

This exhibition examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media, including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

Through printed series of postcards and stamps Emily Newman looks at the figure of the spy in American mass culture during the time of the Cold War and in contemporary films and TV series.

Opening February 10, 2002, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center presents The Short Century: Independence and Liberation Movements in Africa, 1945 — 1994, a landmark exhibition exploring African culture through art, film, photography, graphics, architecture, music, literature, and theater.

As a photographer, film director, composer, and writer, Gordon Parks (1912 - 2006) was a multi-disciplinary artist whose art and advocacy for social justice still resonates in contemporary culture.

They make contemporary art, have made films, curated exhibitions, edited books, staged events, collaborated with architects, computer programmers, writers and theatre directors and have founded processes that have left deep impacts on contemporary culture in India.

Bourque - LaFrance's interdisciplinary practice combines painting, sculpture, and performance, and merges disparate fields and influences, from interior and stage design to film and comics, exploring desire, memory, and estrangement in contemporary domestic and commercial culture.

An American living in France, Cameron Jamie uses music, photography, drawing, film, and video to investigate the quirky, ritualistic activities that are part of contemporary pop culture (wrestling and craftslike mask - making being among his current interests).

His work has been exhibited in galleries and presented at film centers including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Kala Art Center, Berkeley, S8 Gallery, London, Roots & Culture Contemporary Art Center, Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois - Chicago, and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, among many others.

With her portfolio consisting of works from the mediums of painting, sculpture, film and performance, Yayoi Kusama is a famous provocative avant - garde artist from Japan and one of the most prominent figures in her country's contemporary culture.

His writings are concerned with contemporary phenomena, biographies, and stories, and address the parallel worlds of science, media, film, literature, and mass culture.

Through a series of films and events, The Second Summer of Love is exploring not only the roots of the house music phenomenon, but also its enduring impact on international contemporary culture.

He has performed, screened and exhibited at museums, microcinemas, film festivals, galleries, bars and barns, including recent solo presentations at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Roots and Culture, the Chicago Cultural Center, Cinema Contra, Microlights, Echo Park Film Center, Lease Agreement and the University of Chicago Film Studies Center.

Aesthetica: A leading international art and culture magazine founded in 2002 and explores the best in contemporary art, design, photography, film, music and performance.

Neshat, who was born in Iran and moved to the United States in 1978, at the age of 17, is highly acclaimed for her films, photographs, and videos that explore the experience of women living in contemporary and traditional Islamic cultures.

Living and working under the pseudonym «Lutz Bacher» since the 1970s, the artist's diverse conceptual practice spans photography, film, video and sculpture, often using found material, objects and images recontextualized from contemporary culture.

Her dynamic, immersive installations address key issues that span the realms of film, museum exhibitions, the natural sciences, and contemporary culture through the deployment of movement, scale, and architecture.

With a multimedia practice that encompasses works on paper, film, and performance, Shawky reconsiders historical narratives and contemporary culture.

Posing Beauty examines the contested ways in which African and African American beauty has been represented in historical and contemporary contexts through a diverse range of media including photography, film, video, fashion, advertising, and other forms of popular culture such as music and the Internet.

Artist and film - maker Ken McMullen's powerful study of Greek culture and politics, both ancient and modern, fuses acute dramatisations of Antigone with portraits of contemporary resilience.

The Institute offers arts and cultural programs including art exhibitions, author talks, poetry, film, performing arts, music, as well as lectures, symposia, workshops, and short courses designed to contextualize traditional and contemporary Chinese art and culture.

On the Fresh Art International podcast and live streaming radio show, she sparks conversations about contemporary art, design and film with culture makers from around the globe.

Including film, wall paintings, ceramics, silkscreens (on mylar, plexiglass, steel, and canvas), Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible frames the artist's oeuvre as a complex dialogue between culture and system, a body of work invested in the perpetual cross-referencing of aesthetic and social histories,» states the Contemporary Arts Center.

Presented as a series of filmed conversations between Aitken and celebrated cultural figures from diverse media including visual art, architecture, film, new media and music, The Source leads us to new frontiers of contemporary culture.